Brian Seiken has a video of the entire Molly Pitcher qualifier along with his appearance on WB 11 at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/pitcherwrap.html

Steakbellie has a gallery of the contest

Wackbag.com has a forum thread devoted to Philbin’s victory

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PittsburghLive.com has an article about the pierogie contest containing the following results:

1. Ian Hickman, 51 pierogies
2. “Tiny” Tim Rauscheder, 49 (almost DQed)
4. Bob “Killer” Kuhns, 46

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From Erik Denmark’s blog

1 Arturo Rios
2 Erik “the Red” Denmark
3 Crazy Legs Conti

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From IFOCE.com

1. Rich LeFevre, 21 jumbo dogs (equivalent to 34 HDB)
2. Jason “Erbivore” Erb 9 jumbo dogs (equivalent to 16 HDB)
3. Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane, 8 jumbo dogs (equivalent to 14 HDB)

update Pat M has a flickr gallery

update #2 Song Monk has a livejournal entry with pictures and videos

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Shoo Fly Pie results from BeautifulBrian.com & Steakbellie

1. Pat Bertoletti 11.1 lbs
2. Sonya Thomas 9.3
3. Humble Bob Shoudt 9.25
4. Hall Hunt 6.74
5. Juliet Lee 6.66
6. Brad Sciullo 6.18
7. Pat Bruss 5.53
Chris Abatsas 5.48
Steakbellie 4.95
Brian Subich 4.88
Kevin Carr 4.5
Pete Mierniki 3.42
Paul Sakelarides 3.12
Wild Bill 2.85
Russ Keeler – not recorded but ate more than Steakbellie
Dave Shoffner – weight not recorded
Barry Shanebrook – not recorded

updated
Amateur contest results

1. Sean Gordon 4.41 pounds. wins amateur contest for second straight year
2. Andy Rearich 2.81 pounds.
3. Eric Detweiler 2.78 pounds

LancasterOnline.com has an article. A press release is also available.

update #2
megamunch has a blog entry and gallery
Steakbellie has also uploaded a gallery with 281 pictures

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Zoo Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier results from IFOCE.com and Paul Barlow

1. Dale Boone, 21 HDB, first trip to finals since 2004
2. Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough, 20 HDB, 2 HDB deduction for debris
3. Juris Shibayama, 18 HB
? Peter Davekos
? Larry McNeil, 13 HDB
? Paul Barlow, 10 HDB

update ajc.com has an article and photo gallery of the contest. Dale Boone has a manager and dedicated his victory to his grandmother.

update #2 Paul Barlow has a myspace blog entry about the contest

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InsideBayArea.com has a preview of today’s Nathan’s qualifier in the San Francisco area. Bert Chi and Jake True are two locals who will take on Rich LeFevre.

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(From Erik Denmark) Erik Denmark has written a preview of tomorrow’s pigs feet contest that he will compete in. Some of the other expected entrants are Crazy Legs, Justin Mih and Skinnyboy.

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Tim Brown did an interview with the Boothbay Register on a trip back to his father’s restaurant in Maine.

Brown says that this is the first year that he has taken competitive eating seriously. He is now in training for the primo event of competitive eating, Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Championship on the 4 th of July in Coney Island. “Right now, I’ve been on the circuit trying to qualify for Nathan’s. It’s like the Super Bowl of competitive eating. There’s no prize money, but it’s the one event every year that everyone tries to get into,” says Brown. Brown has been traveling the qualifying circuit for Nathan’s and thinks he is likely to get into the competition as a wildcard entry. To prepare himself, each morning and evening, he drinks a gallon of water as fast as he can, usually under five minutes. A couple of times a week he will go to a buffet. He shovels downs 10 pounds of zucchini or tofu. Brown also runs five miles a day, six days a week. Despite all this hard work, progress is slow. A year ago Brown could down 21 hot dogs, now he is up to 25.

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IFOCE.com reports that Pat Philbin won the Nathan’s qualifier held at the Molly Pitcher Travel Plaza for the second consecutive year.

1. Pat Philbin, 27 HDB
2. Allen Goldstein 24 HDB
3. Arturo Rios, Jr. 21 HDB
4. Brian Subich 19 (out of wildcard contention)
5. Steakbellie 17.5 (or 16.5)

updatebeautifulbrian.com has a contest report

Steakbellie has a pre contest report

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LancasterOnline has a preview of tomorrow’s Shoo Fly Pie contest with quotes from “Humble” Bob Shoudt and Pat Bertoletti.

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A press release announces a P’Zone eating contest against Takeru Kobayashi:

Coinciding with the return of P’Zone pizza, Pizza Hut will launch a national competition “Dare You to Still Be Hungry” featuring Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi, world leader in competitive eating. Through the contest, consumers can enter for a chance to win a trip to New York to take on legendary eating champion, Kobayashi, in an event sanctioned by Major League Eating (MLE).

To enter, P’Zone pizza fans should visit pizzahut.com, upload a photo of themselves with their favorite P’Zone and write a brief description stating why they are up to the challenge of competing against Kobayashi. The contest deadline for submitting photos is July 1. The face-off with Kobayashi will take place in early July.

Entries are being accepted at http://www.pizzahut.com/vpofpizza/ The rules announce that one amateur with no competitive eating experience will be selected to compete against Kobayashi. The selected eater will receive $5,000 and a trip to New York City.

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Post-Gazette.com has a preview of Saturday’s AICE pierogie eating contest.

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Liz has an interview with Crazy Legs Conti from after his victory at the Mall of America qualifier in Minnesota

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From an IFOCE email sent to Dave Shoffner:

Pat Bertoletti
Sonya Thomas
Bob Shoudt
Hall Hunt
Juliet Lee
Steakbellie
The Mad Greek
Wild Bill Myers
Brian Subich
The Sane Greek
Russ Keeler
Dave Shoffner (received standby slot)
Pete Miernicki

Tim Janus will miss the contest for the first time. This will be the first matchup of Sonya & Juliet since the meatball contest in Atlantic City.

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EarthTimes.com has a press release about the “Spotlight on New Jersey” to be held at the Molly Pitcher travel plaza on Friday. Spaces in the Nathan’s qualifier are still available according to the press release:

Concerts, giveaways, and special activities will take place throughout the day. Chief among them will be the Nathan’s Famous hotdog eating contest scheduled for 1:00 PM. The winner of this regional qualifying event will compete in Nathan’s national championship on July 4th in Coney Island, New York. HMSHost invites all aspiring hotdog champions to come out this Friday and compete for the right to represent the great State of New Jersey in this classic event.

No expected eaters are listed. Brian Seiken says that he, Brian Subich and Allen Goldstein will attend on the home page of beautifulbrian.com

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The Washington Times has an article about Juliet Lee which compares her to Sonya Thomas.

The AP article about the Norfolk qualifier has been picked up by a lot of outlets.

updateWUSA also has an article and video clip (from beautifulbrian.com & Joe Callow)
ABC news has a video clip on Yahoo (from the Sicilian)

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From IFOCE.com

From Mattituck Strawberry Festival, Long Island

1. Pat Bertoletti, 15.25 lb. 8 minutes
2. Tim Janus 13.5 lb.
3. Crazy Legs Conti 9.5 lb.
4. “The Greek” (Chris Abatsas?) 8 lb.
5. Brian Seiken 5.5 lb.
6. Jim McCreevey 4.5 lb.
6. Wild Bill Myers 4.5 lb
6. Pete Miernicki 4.5 lb
9 Peter Janus (Tim Janus’ father) 3.5 lb.

update results updated from Brian Seiken’s report a video of the contest is also available

mosesnews.com has a lot of pictures of the contest

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The Don “Moses” Lerman episode of Brian Seiken’s television show is now available for free at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/lermanshow.html

Brian also has a commentary on the Nathan’s qualifiers and a report on Juliet Lee’s victory in Norfolk.

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Mall of America results from IFOCE.com:

1. Crazy Legs Conti, 24 HDB
2. Mongo Marquez, 20 HDB
3. Justin Mih, 18 HDB
3. Nathan Biller, 18 HDB

update Twin Cities has an article. Other competitors were Russ “The Mad Stork” Witzke, “Big Al” Scaletta, Bill “The Hungry Hungarian” Roth and Jim “Hammer” Hamrick. Crazy Legs Conti will compete in the strawberry shortcake eating contest.

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Norfolk results From IFOCE.com:
1) Juliet Lee, 26 HDB
2) Joe Tursi, 15.5 HDB

Juliet Lee becomes the 4th woman in the IFOCE era to reach the Nathan’s finals (Sonya Thomas, Carlene LeFevre, Takako Akasaka)

update HamptonRoads.com has an article about the contest It is surprising the Juliet Lee was apparently the only ranked eater to compete.

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(From R Suzuki) In a blog entry, Kobayashi says he will go for his 7th consecutive Nathan’s championship next month (automatically translated):

Concerning participation, that you think whether there were various stories, but we would like to do the statement which it is clear concerning the conference.

July 4th, with [neisanzu] of NY [koniairando], it enjoys that it has a match.
The highest players who are collected from the world, the fact that the highest tournament is done is promised

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A video clip about the construction and attempted consumption of the 14 pound pizza from Beau Jo’s in Colorado from Food TV’s Unwrapped is available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MOwffwuhQ

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A video of the pierogi contest held at the Nanticoke (PA) Musicfest won by Carey Poehlmann has been posted to http://youtube.com/watch?v=gDxkrq9_H5s

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The schedule for the New York City Food Film Festival has been updated and the Wing Bowl 13 documentary “Swallow Your Pride” has replaced “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” on the listing for June 21.

Watching the films are free but food must be preordered.

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